Strawberry Hill, in Middlesex, the seat of the Honourable Horace Walpole [graphic]

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Title: Strawberry Hill, in Middlesex, the seat of the Honourable Horace Walpole [graphic]
Creator: Wooding, John, active 1784-1791, printmaker
Contributor: Dayes, Edward, 1763-1804, artist.
Harrison and Co. (London, England), publisher.
Published / Created: [1 October 1788]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published as the act directs, Octr. 1, 1788, by Harrison and Co., No. 18, Paternoster-Row, London
Abstract: "View of the gothic style house with castellated towers, pikelets and a spire with weathervane at back, seen from lawns in the foreground with two figures, thin trees surrounding the building and a bench in the garden at right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Plate from: Picturesque views of the principal seats of the nobility and gentry, in England and Wales / by the most eminent British artists. London : Published by Harrison & Co., [1786-1788].
Mounted on page 13 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 15.2 x 20.3 cm.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Provenance: Sabin; August 1927. Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 151 x 200 mm, on sheet 210 x 278 mm
Language: English

Genre: Etchings England London 1788
Engravings England London 1788
Material: etching and engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Twickenham.
Subject (Name): Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England),
Subject (Topic): Homes and haunts
Dwellings
Estates
Subjects: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Homes and haunts
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Dwellings > England > Twickenham
Estates > England > Twickenham
England > London > 1788
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

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